Balls Balled out of Labour Contest ?

Telegraph: Reports that the Ed Balls the Shadow Education Secretary and contender in the Labour Leadership contest is thinking of pulling out of the race and he has not gained enough Union support. As the article notes the race for the leadership is coming down to Ed and David Miliband, this is worse than when Gordon Brown pulled out of the 1994 contest against Tony Blair, brother and against brother, this shows that Ed Miliband has bigger flaws that Gordon Brown, he has moved to the left, promising all the Unions that they would want to support him, his election would be a disaster for Labour, he would move the Party to the left, the Miliband Christmas Family gatherings would make the Blair/Brown meetings look cordial. This race has in a odd way the echoes of the race between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown but worse, it can be argued that Ed Miliband would lead Labour to defeat at the next election, thus the Labour Party would end up going for the senior brother David Miliband, the ex Foreign Secretary, perhaps Labour wants to move to the left to find its soul after Tony Blair but the election of Ed Miliband would bury New Labour and allow the Coalition a chance to rule for ten years, does Labour want to play that price, what Mrs Miliband was thinking to allow her sons to run is beyond reason, this is a time for a parent to lay down the law to the junior brother, in this case Ed Miliband, this will be a disaster for Labour.

Nuclear Deterrent Threat from North Korea - Bad Bluff

BBC News: Reports that North Korea has threatened to use its Nuclear Deterrent when the US and South Korea start their military exercises. Thus this is the worse kind of bluff folks, in less North Korea wants to commit suicide it will not attack the US Ships or South Korea, this is an attempt to rattle the Obama White House, its nuclear blackmail, think if it was Iran. Thus POTUS should get on with the military exercise but should add more US Ships just in case and place US Forces in the region on alert, just in case North Korea wants to start a War.

Threat from North Korea - NO WAY!

Guardian: Reports that North Korea has stated that it will take physical action should the planned military exercises between the US and South Korea take place. In one word folks, Rubbish, the North Koreans are not nutty enough to attack the US Fleet, the Obama Administration would have no choice but to take military action, this is further hot air from North Korea, the problem with North Korea its hard to see what they want, they have been offered a great deal by the US and its Allies, give up its nuclear programme and it gets all it wants, but recent tensions between North and South Korea has more to do with the succession problem in North Korea, thus its hard to see which forces are pushing for recent tensions, the nutty Dear Leader in need of Prozac or some military forces who want to replace the “ Royalty “ of North Korea, one thing can be postulated folks North Korea is all bluff no backbone.

Afghanistan Front News

MOD: Has announced the names of the UK Soldiers that were killed on Wednesday in Afghanistan, the Soldiers were “ Corporal Matthew James Stenton from The Royal Dragoon Guards and Lance Corporal Stephen Daniel Monkhouse from 1st Battalion Scots Guards ”. Our thoughts are with the families of Corporal Stenton and Lance Corporal Monkhouse.

No Election in 2007 COST US the Election in 2010 - former Labour Chancellor

New Statesman: Reports on comments by the last Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, Mr Darling stated that when Gordon Brown failed to call an election in 2007 he really hurt Labour's chances of winning in 2010. The decision by Gordon Brown not to call an election in 2007 was an example of Gordon Brown at his worse, he didn't stand against Tony Blair in 1994, he caused havoc in Government by blocking the public sector reforms of Tony Blair, he pushed out Blair in 2007 with his constant coup attempts, then he made sure that when he become leader there was no contest, he wanted the Crown but didn't want to fight for it, the chance of going early and losing was to much for Brown thus his bottling of the election. The real black mark against Tony Blair is that he left the UK with Gordon Brown, that is worse that Iraq folks.

Tony Blair in the US HOT Seat over BP and Libya ?

Telegraph: Reports on the request by a US Senate Committee that former UK PM Tony Blair appear before it to discuss UK Government links with Libya and if these connections lead to the release of the Lockerbie bomber. How dare these Senators up for re-elections try to drag Tony Blair in to their Campaign runs, this request is nothing more than political play, a former UK PM does not have to justify his action to the US Senate, Mr Blair should tell the US Senate to take a running jump over a big cliff, the US Senate should keep their nose out and look in to how Obama Administration using the offer of public jobs to get people not to run in different State races, the request by the US Senate should be used as toilet paper. What cheek by the US Senate, a former or a current UK PM only has to answer to the House of Commons or Inquires set up by the House of Commons. END OF SUBJECT.

Obama Administration and Race 11

This is the White House view of the case of Shirley Sherrod and the rush to fire her from the Obama Administration, the White House Press Secretary stated the following, " ..... I think this is a fair way to put it: Members of this administration, members of the media, members of different political factions on both sides of this have all made determinations and judgments without a full set of facts. I think that is wholly and completely accurate. I think without a doubt Ms. Sherrod is owed an apology. I would do so certainly on behalf of this administration. I think if we learn -- if we look back and decide what we want to learn out of this, I think it is, as I said, everybody involved made determinations without knowing all the facts and all the events..... think we live in a culture that things whip around, people want fast responses, we want to give fast responses, and I don't think there’s any doubt that if we all look at this, I think the lesson -- one of the great lessons you take away from this is to ask all the questions first and to come to that fuller understanding. I say that, again, from the perspective of this administration; I say that from the perspective of those that cover this administration, and those that are involved in the back and forth in the political theater of this country. ". The Press Secretary is a 100% in this case. In this 24/7 news world its quick to rush to a judgement about an incident, but it also important to check a story out from top to bottom and sideways when it comes to race issues. The case of Shirley Sherrod shows that a story can be taken out of context, a story that has implications of racism turn out to be a story about learning how racism can be seen and how it can be reversed. In this case the from the White House down everyone jumped on the poor lady without the context of the story, this blog in future will be careful about racism stories, you have to be right folks, it does not matter if the White House gets the wrong end of the stick, they are politicians, when do politicians ever get the point. One has to in these days of political heat not allow ones political judgement to overcome the UK's believe in the truth, and also justice is blind, lets hope this is the last case of racism being used a political weapon by all sides in the political spectrum.